CV padding and main character syndrome.

You can get loads of frames per second with cloud gaming, just not necessarily from the right second.

Password managers are supposed to be designed to resist a situation where they’re compromised, and are only ever supposed to see a mysterious blob of encrypted data without ever having access to any information that would help decrypt it. The headline’s more like M1 Abrams Tanks Vulnerable to Small Arms Fire - it’d be totally expected that most things die when shot with bullets, but the point of a tank is that it doesn’t, so it’s a big deal if it does.

The DHT11 has been replaced twice with similarly-priced but more accurate models, first the DHT22 and then the AHT20. In my experience, the AHT20 is a lot better than the DHT22, mainly because its power consumption is far lower, so it doesn’t mess up its readings by getting hot.

Also, at that size, I’d be very surprised if the dehumidifier has a compressor. It’s much more likely that it’s got a Peltier plate, and they’re not very good. They use a lot of power to develop and maintain a fairly small temperature difference, so if they’re in a confined space, they heat up the air quite a bit, and then the water from their tank will more easily evaporate.

If you’re willing to spend some money, a solid state ion membrane dehumidifier might be better for a small cabinet than a compressor-based one, as it’ll be easy to ensure the water goes out of the cabinet instead of into a container that can’t be emptied without opening the cabinet and letting more humidity in. They’re definitely not cheap, though. I think they’re still under patent as there’s only one manufacturer that I can find, so maybe they’re the dehumidifier of the future even if they’re not suitable right now.

There was a while where it obviously met and exceeded the definition in the UN Genocide Convention, but a lot of people refused to acknowledge it might be a genocide because the UN had not yet declared it to be one. The UN is notoriously slow at that kind of thing, though, especially when a powerful country wants them to be slow.

If it’s the problem that I’ve seen people complain about in the past, it’s effectively the same as HTTPS ‘not supporting’ end to end encryption because it runs over IP and IP packets contain the IP address of where they need to go, so someone can see that two IP addresses are communicating, which is unavoidable as otherwise there’s nothing to say where the data needs to go, so no way for it to get there. Someone did a blog post a couple of years ago claiming Matrix was unsecure as encrypted messages had their destination homeserver in plaintext, but that doesn’t carry any information that isn’t implied by the fact that the message is being sent to that homeserver’s IP.

He’s not a low-level politician, he was being hailed as the most likely person to become the prime minister if Starmer resigned yesterday. That’s pretty senior.

It was £7, so likely not worth the effort - if they want me to pay to ship it back, then that would cost about as much as the roll did - and it’s now outside the warranty period, so that would be pointless anyway.

When it’s hot, it stinks of hot ABS, and it dissolves in acetone. I’ve read that sometimes budget filament manufacturers will use the same pigment across their whole material range, even if it’s not capable of withstanding the print temperatures of some of them, but it’s ABS+ rather than pure ABS, so it could be full of mystery additives that don’t handle heat well, too.

There’s not much point using it as glue as I’m not going to get through a whole kilo worth of ABS glue, and produce more than enough ABS scraps from test prints and support to always make a colour-matched glue anyway.

It’s a federated Twitter alternative. It’s existed for a while - the initial release was in 2016, but obviously with all the Musk-related nonsense in the past few years, it’s grown a lot.

There are situations they don’t cover, e.g. if you choose a sender address from the same domain as the real address. Obviously, lots of email services check for that, but it’s not universal - it was a great tool for pranks at university for me.

The from field in an email is something that the sender sets, and they don’t have to set it to anything in particular. Unless your email client stops you (which is pretty common these days) you can just enter a made up address, another address that you’d rather receive replies through, or someone else’s address. It’s one of the reasons why phishing emails work - there’s nothing stopping a scammer impersonating anyone they want to.

I reckon it depends on how warm someone’s home is and how good their circulation is. If I don’t have shoes on indoors, then for half the year it feels like my feet have been stabbed because they get so cold (slippers are not enough), but I don’t wear the same shoes indoors as outdoors. I suspect that if we set the heating higher and the house wasn’t constructed in a way that makes the floor always much colder than a few inches above the floor, this wouldn’t be a problem.

It makes a cryptographically-secure hash of the password you enter, then truncates that before sending it to the server so the only information they get would be in common with a huge number of other passwords. They then send back the leaked passwords with the same truncated hash, and your computer checks to see if what you’ve entered matches anything on the list. It’s not practical to send the whole list for every query as there’s just too much data, but if you don’t trust their site, you can just download the whole list and check against it yourself.

They used ballistic gelatine dummies for a while, then decided that they weren’t a good model of most injuries, so had an episode where they designed a new dummy by buying human bones and breaking them to see how much force they could take, then picked out a material with similar properties (which surprisingly ended up being wood), and from then on, built fake skeletons to put in the gelatine dummies.

IIRC, the bones were bought from a shop that just sold human bones. They’d ended up there nominally because their previous owners’ wills had permitted it. E.g. lots of people want their skull to be used in productions of Hamlet, so drama groups often end up owning real skulls. I’m not sure whether Mythbusters was buying things from a general-use shelf or if they counted as medical science due to doing some kind of experiment - the US military counts even if they’re just using corpses for target practice.

using namespace std is still an effective way to shoot yourself in the foot, and if anything is a bigger problem than it was in the past now that std has decades worth of extra stuff in it that could have a name collision with something in your code.

I think people were just explaining why the headline had to say allegedly, not defending the rapist. The post title says allegedly because the original headline does, and the original headline does because news outlets can get into a lot of trouble if they don’t when someone hasn’t been convicted yet, potentially even being liable for prejudicing a trial and causing a criminal who’d otherwise have been convicted to go free.

They still need making and putting up, and they’re more obtrusive than a swift brick as they stick out instead of being embedded in the wall itself.

There’s kind of need for them everywhere and this is a pretty practical way to ensure they end up everywhere and will stay there.

Investors managed to pour billions into making the metaverse bubble, even though that was just video games being invented a second time by people so uninterested in them that they hadn’t noticed they’d already been around for decades. There’s no reason to think that investors know what they are beyond something on a computer, so obviously they’d see something else on the computer as a viable competitor.